Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, pcg <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Enough?  Need more?
>
> Nah, I think the point has been made. :)


Funny, just ran across this via Twitter.

Let's not pretend for a moment that birtherism isn't steeped in racism. I'm
willing to concede that not *every* conspiracy theorist asking for Obama's
long-form birth certificate is a bigot. But it's worth asking: Is there any
way any of this would have happened if the president were a white man with
an Anglo-Saxon name? At the heart of it, most of the people demanding
evidence of Obama's citizenship were just taken aback by the fact that a
black guy could be president. How could an African-American attain the
nation's highest office without cheating? Impossible. And so, "Prove
it, Barack *Hussein* Obama—if that is your real name."
When Obama won the election, it naturally thrilled the African-American
community, which had long been told—tacitly and outright—that it couldn't
achieve greatness. In 2008, a black man beat a white man fair and square,
and nobody could say anything about it. Three years later, the White House's
deference to Trump proves that somebody *can* say something about it. The
heartbreaking lesson of April 27, 2011, is that, as a black man, you better
always be ready to justify your success. Even if you're president of the
United States.


http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AY5mvr/www.good.is/post/the-day-a-race-baiting-tv-clown-hijacked-the-white-house/

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